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Unbreakable traits can go unnoticed until a situation arises where this survival function is triggered. This account is one such example.
A pair of experimental oil derricks in the Periera Sound were found to be inadequate to contain the oil vein tapped by recent offshore drilling. The derricks consisted of 10,000 ton oceanic drilling platforms which are piloted over oil deposits like a ship, and then converted into giant drilling machines capable of boring deep into the earth's crust at the bottom of the sea. The pressure in the oil deposit overwhelmed the valves below the oil derricks and began spewing black petroleum runoff, which was headed towards a nearby straight where heavy commercial shipping traffic had already prompted a marine life protection cry.
An industrial micro-bore sealant team came to cap the well. A technician named Blaven led an eleven-man undersea welding team. Blaven dove to inspect the gusher, pinpointing its pressure points; he then returned to the surface to radio in a ballast barge, ordering it to dump its concrete blocks over the site as blast packing (in case of any underwater seismic tremors). In his vessels communications box, Blaven noticed the surface surveyor needle indicating a fire was breaking out. A second later this fire touched off a chain explosion, turning the pair of derricks into a half mile high cordon of flame. The men sealing the points below were immediately killed by the force of the explosion. Due to the resulting shock wave the communications boat was sent flying by the explosion as if it had been carried cross-state by a tornado.
The communications boat landed on its side, half submerged on top of a sand deposit on a reef which acted as a breakwall for the oil derricks. The fire soon reached the living reef, charring it into a petrified state. The sand deposit upon which the boat lay turned to glass from the heat. Twenty sea carrier fire engines were dispatched in a rescue effort.
A chain of undersea explosions shot oil up to the surface where it combusted, and to make matters worse, a sudden storm wind blew the fire like a spinning clock hand through the area, repelling the rescue boats. When at last the fire slowed, firefighters formed a blockade, coating the blaze in foam. The wind pressed the fire forward again and it chewed through the retardant foam. The subsequent story headlined BILLION BARRELL BLAST declared no survivors.
It took 16 hours for marine firefighters to knock down the fire. Of the crew on board the boat, only Blaven survived the impact. During this time Blaven had been lying unconscious, surrounded by the raging fire but untouched. The boat upon which Blaven lay had been pushed upwards on outcropping of fused sand, and despite a quarter inch deep laceration that bisected Blavens head, he was not dead. | |
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